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- Basic Information
- Name - Dirk Ilabanduul van den Akker
- Count van den Akker
- Officer van den Akker
- August 12th, 280 A.C
- Leo
- Weapon of Choice - Fists
- Core Concept
- Personality Type - ENTJ-A
- Character Alignment - True Neutral
- Likes - Compound Interest, Veterans, and Eronidas
- Dislikes - Barbarians, Thieves, and Magic
- Education - Narlas College for Commerce
- Strengths - Finance, Accounting, and Boxing
- Weaknesses - Magic, Forgery, and Financial Crises
- Motivation & Goals - Dirk is a very goal-oriented person, and from a young age he has strived for greatness and recognition amongst his noble peers, but mostly from his father. Dirk had received approval from his father before he died, which greatly satisfied the young man, however now he strives to be the best possible leader for his family. Dirk has a broader goal of bringing the banking capital in Calderliga to his homelands of Pannor, and his rich networks of banks throughout the empire are meant to take market share from the Calderligans.
- Religious Beliefs - Dirk has always been a very devout worshipper of both Allest and Daiana, where the latter receives a majority of his worship due to his strong Eronidas sympathies. He always has made significant donations to Unionist Temples in Pannor, as well as shrines for Daiana across the Empire, notably close to his banks. Dirk has also been the first Van Den Akker patriarch to encourage his clan to become members of the Peerage and join the Helerian guard rather than the Military. This is because Dirk seeks an alliance amongst the Regalian clergy.
- Appearance Information
- Eye Color - Dark Blue
- Hair Color - Black
- Hair Style - Cropped Short, military cut
- Facial Hair - Full beard
- Skin Color - Caucasian
- Clothing - Whatever is most fashionable in Anglia at the time, rarely armor.
- Height - 7'6
- Tattoos - Unionist Eye on his Chest
- Miscellaneous - Dirk lost half of his left arm during the Ellador Campaign, he has a Hoplastec prosthetic in its place.
- Proficiency Information
- Strength- 7
- Weapon Throw (Free)
- Technique Parry
- Chaining Throw
- Diving Tackle
- Shattering Strike
- Wounded Ego
- Steady Body
- Heavy Throw
- Iron WIll
- Shield Impact (Free)
- Shield Cover
- Shield Bunker
- Shield Slam
- Shield Snare
- Intelligence - 0
- Wisdom - 0
- Dexterity - 0
- Faith - 0
- Magic - 0
- Political Presence
- Fame Presence
- Sanctioned Presence
- Languages- 6
- Common
- Anglian
- Calem
- Vaman
- Vasar
- Canta
- Athletic Hobby
- Technology Hobby
- Plot Hooks
- Investing Body - Mainly meant for people with the Fiscal Presence Pack, House van den Akker's banks could have been one of the banks your character borrowed from and now Dirk is looking to collect on that debt. Dirk can also act as an investor for in character progression hooks or just generally as like a loan for your character's business or mercenary venture. He is also apart of the Commerce Guild. Dirk is willing to spend money on almost anything but he is sort of a loan shark and he gets rather angry if he's not paid back his dues!
- Proud Eronidas - Dirk is notoriously fond of Eronidas culture outside of Anglia, having visited the Polons in Daendroc and Ashaven multiple times in his youth; it is safe to say that he will act favorably to most Eronidas. He does hold disdain toward the Death Shamans and avoids the City of Kur, only having visited once and intends never to return again as the rampant magic scared him deeply.
- MIlitary - Dirk is an officer in the Theomarchs, a fact which he is very proud of but only joined very recently, in 310 A.C during the Kade Campaign in Ellador, where he lost his arm. While he did serve dutifully, this is really the only combat experience he has seen as since then, the Empire has been in a state of relative peace and there is no reason for him to deploy. However, he is rather new to being a Theomarch and as such, he can make poor decisions on the battlefield, though because of his status as a noble, he has maintained his high rank regardless.
- Life Story
- Early Years (280 - 300 A.C)
- Dirk was born in a large estate in the Northernmost island of Pannor in 280 A.C along with eight sisters, he was also born as the third child of nine.
- Since he was the only male, he did receive quite a lot of attention from his father, however it was largely accepted that one of his sisters would rule House van den Akkers due to simple statistical probability.
- Dirk did have two main advantages however, he was much larger than his sisters, and he was far smarter than most members of his family, exceeding in the private tutors that their mother paid for.
- Overall, Dirk's childhood was rather cushy, although his father clearly tried to nudge all of his children into military service, it never truly interested the young Count, as he tended to be with his father in the day-to-day managing of his counties.
- His sisters were far better at fighting than Dirk, however they did not get to see how the counties were managed, nor did they have the same relationship with their father than Dirk had; it was clear in his later teen years that Dirk would become the patriarch.
- Some of his sisters, who felt cheated as they were able to best Dirk in competitions of raw skill at this age, married into other noble families or just left behind the life of nobility in pursuit of other interests. Today, Dirk only has three sisters that have stayed by his side, all of them younger than he.
- In 296 A.C, Dirk would petition his father to pay for his education in Dragenthal at the Narlas School of Commerce, his father did not understand why but the tuition was inexpensive to the Count so he allowed it.
- By 300 A.C, Dirk had graduated top of his class from Narlas, and just in time, as his father had become gravely injured while quelling a rebellion in Pol Hullamun, when he returned.
- Count Bas van den Akker would die in 301 A.C, as the winter proved too harsh for his ailing condition, considering that he was already a fairly old Eronidas by that time.
- At the age of twenty-one, Dirk would be thrusted into the spotlight as the new Count of Pol Hullamun, though he was by far the most prepared for this expedition.
- Dirk first established a banking network throughout Pannor, buying five buildings across the main islands of Pannor, founding three mercenary companies alongside them to protect the banks.
- This at first enticed smaller farming investors, as Dirk gave out very lenient loans in his first years to accrue wealth before using that wealth to establish the banks across the Empire.
- Much of Dirk's adolescent years was spent gathering wealth and creating his banking network, he spent a majority of his time doing this and encouraged his family to travel to Dragenthal so that they may receive the same education he was afforded.
- During this time, House van den Akkers went from a relatively obscure county in the poor areas of Anglia, to one of the more prominent houses in the region, which Dirk attributes exclusively to himself.
- Toward the latter years of his very rapid expansion, Dirk became enthralled with Regalian and Erondias culture, and strove to be indulge himself in the best of both worlds.
